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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street

1 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH th Street ~ Astoria, New York The Second Sunday of Lent February 25 th, 2018 PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION ~ ~ info@immacastoria.org ~ (Parish Website) (Main Telephone Number) (Main ) (Fax Number)

MASS SCHEDULE SATURDAY 7:00 AM Weekday Mass 9:00 AM Weekday Mass 5:00 PM Sunday Vigil Mass SUNDAY Upper Church 7:00 AM Low Mass (Mass Without Music) 9:00 AM Family Mass 10:30 AM High Mass (Mass with

9:00 AM Mass, and at 5:00 PM with Rosary and Evening Prayer. CLERGY Rev. Msgr. Fernando Ferrarese....Pastor Rev. Liju Augustine, CMI........Parochial Vicar Rev. William A. McLaughlin.

Please call the Rectory for an appointment. Sick Calls Please contact the Rectory at any time. Only use the Emergency Number for cases of Extreme Unction (Last Rites).

UPCOMING EVENTS CONFESSIONS The Sacrament of Confession is available Saturdays from 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM. The languages generally available are English, Spanish and Italian.

2 MASS SCHEDULE SATURDAY 7:00 AM Weekday Mass 9:00 AM Weekday Mass 5:00 PM Sunday Vigil Mass SUNDAY Upper Church 7:00 AM Low Mass (Mass Without Music) 9:00 AM Family Mass 10:30 AM High Mass (Mass with Choir) 12:00 PM Spanish Mass/Español 1:30 PM Contemporary Music Mass Lower Church 9:00 AM Italian Mass/Italiano MONDAY TO FRIDAY 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM & 12:00 PM MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA Monday after the 9:00 AM Mass, and at 5:00 PM with Rosary and Evening Prayer. CLERGY Rev. Msgr. Fernando Ferrarese....Pastor Rev. Liju Augustine, CMI Parochial Vicar Rev. William A. McLaughlin....Parochial Vicar Dcn. Francisco Hernandez Dcn. Elkin Tamayo In Residence: Rev. Msgr. Charles Patrick Boccio Rev. Msgr. Vincent Fullam OTHER SACRAMENTS Baptisms Baptisms are celebrated monthly. Please call the Rectory for an appointment. Sick Calls Please contact the Rectory at any time. Only use the Emergency Number for cases of Extreme Unction (Last Rites). Marriages Please notify the Rectory at least six (6) months before the desired wedding date. Please check with the Church before contacting the Catering Hall. UPCOMING EVENTS CONFESSIONS The Sacrament of Confession is available Saturdays from 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM. The languages generally available are English, Spanish and Italian. RECTORY OFFICE HOURS Monday Friday 9:00 AM 12:30 PM /1:30 PM 8:00 PM Saturday Sunday 9:00 AM 4:00 PM Office is Closed Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy Ms. Eileen Harnischfeger, Principal Religious Education Office (CCD) Mrs. Marylyn Crum, Director mcrum@immacastoria.org IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ROSARY SOCIETY Please join us for the Rosary Society Mass and meeting on Sunday, March 4th. We will begin by reciting the Rosary in church at 10:00 a.m. You can find us in the Chapel in the first few pews on the left side. We will then move to the left side of the main church facing the Ambo for the Mass. After Mass, we will go down to Lyon s Hall in the Academy for our meeting and refreshments. All are welcome! STATIONS OF THE CROSS Stations of the Cross will be celebrated every Friday after the 12 Noon Mass in English, and 7:00PM in Spanish, in the Upper Church. ARISE SCRIPTURE STUDY GROUP ARISE, our Scripture Study Group, has begun its 4th season and meets on Mondays at 6:00 PM. Newcomers are welcome! The theme for this season is New Heart, New Spirit. Our next meetings will be on Feb 26th, and March 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, all in the Nazareth Center, to reflect on the Word of God. Come to as many as you can. For more information, call Marta Pope at

3 For a Higher Purpose Every time that we come to the Olympics, we seem to lay aside our differences and concentrate on the greatness of human effort and the respect that we should accord to such striving. While in a healthy form of competition we seek that place in the sun for our own nationality and background, we cannot help giving honor to those athletes from other nations who have, against all odds, striven against great challenges and endured so as to be able to triumph. It is a time to lay aside our differences and give human striving its deserved reward. To see these athletes, who have worked so hard for years, finally arrive at the their Olympic dreams is to truly be thankful for our own humanity and the greatness of God s creation. For even though our bodies don t quite correspond to the glory that belongs to the bodies of these athletes, they are, even in our humble and sometimes aging way, made from the same stuff of nature. Like them, we are human beings and thereby share, by communality, the specialness of those disciplined and youthful men and women. Often athletic imagery is used of the spiritual life. We are in the holy season of Lent, which is a time of spiritual training. During the time of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (4 th - 6 th centuries), the spiritual discipline was arduous and even physically exhaustive; the desert was no place for the faint of heart! Why, then, did they do this? Evidently, they were willing to give up so much comfort, not because they hated themselves or were masochists, but because they believed in something more than what the world presented them with. They trained their bodies like spiritual athletes for a higher purpose: The Kingdom of God. We all know that, in our bodies, it is very easy to get out of shape. It is easier to gain weight than to lose it! When we decide to get into a program of physical exercise, the first day is relatively easy, but then the aches and pains begin and it is much easier to just let it go! Climbing up a mountain is harder than going back down. So it is in the spiritual life; we need times like Lent to get ourselves in shape spiritually. What is important is the purpose why we do the actions we decide on. Dieting and fasting may have the same result, but one is not spiritual and the other is. What we look like after fasting is beside the point. It is, at best, an accidental occurrence. Fasting is a redirecting of the appetites toward God as the ultimate need. It is a putting straight what had become crooked, so that if one believes in God, the privations and the discomfort involved become acceptable and even desirable. When there is no belief in God, then there can never be the spiritual discipline of fasting for there is no longer a higher purpose. One can still diet for health reasons, but it is not fasting and never will be. The ascesis, or what we do during Lent to prepare ourselves spiritually for Holy Week, we choose and follow through on is just a means to an end. The danger in doing these things is that we fall into the trap of the Pharisees: doing them to be seen to be holy by others. This is why Jesus teaches, in no uncertain terms, that what we do should be done in secret otherwise we could be fooling ourselves and actually be performing our Lenten resolutions for the hidden applause of other s regard. A guard against this egotistical drive is Almsgiving. Over and over, God says in the Old Testament: the fasting I require, the fasting that pleases me is when you feed the hungry. Doing acts of social justice throughout the season of Lent insures that we keep the focus off ourselves. In fact, if we pray, we should pray for others and if we fast, we should become sensitized to the starvation that haunts this world. The only way to prevent the season of Lent from becoming a time of self-help is to do it all for that higher purpose: the Love of God and of our neighbors. Rev. Monsignor Fernando Ferrarese

SUNDAY - February 25 7:00 a.m. For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00 a.m. Ignatz & Gisela Cseri 10:30 a.m. Gisela & Ignatz Cseri 12:00 p.m. Spanish: Daniel Salvador Matute, Virgilio Cayuana, Saul Marselo Cayuana, Maria Lucrecia Gusñay, Angel Orihuela & Deceased Family Members, Sgt.

Remem.) TUESDAY - February 27 7:00 a.m. Esther Sotelo 9:00 a.m. Esther Mulè 12:00 p.m. Antonio Romano WEDNESDAY - February 28 7:00 a.m. Toma Gasparic, Dumica Gasparic & Barica Gasparic 9:00 a.m. Rose Lee 12:00 p.

4 SUNDAY - February 25 7:00 a.m. For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00 a.m. Ignatz & Gisela Cseri 10:30 a.m. Gisela & Ignatz Cseri 12:00 p.m. Spanish: Daniel Salvador Matute, Virgilio Cayuana, Saul Marselo Cayuana, Maria Lucrecia Gusñay, Angel Orihuela & Deceased Family Members, Sgt. Michael Ojeda 1:30 p.m. Angel Calderon & Brothers (Liv.) Lower Church: 9:00 a.m. Italian: Alfredo Iannece MONDAY - February 26 7:00 a.m. Mary Cruz 9:00 a.m. Alvaro & Maria Roco 12:00 p.m. Mary Marconi (Birth. Remem.) TUESDAY - February 27 7:00 a.m. Esther Sotelo 9:00 a.m. Esther Mulè 12:00 p.m. Antonio Romano WEDNESDAY - February 28 7:00 a.m. Toma Gasparic, Dumica Gasparic & Barica Gasparic 9:00 a.m. Rose Lee 12:00 p.m. Nella Anderson THURSDAY - March 1 7:00 a.m. Dolores Hogan 9:00 a.m. Michael DePace 12:00 p.m. Rose Pokorny SUNDAY - March 4 7:00 a.m. For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00 a.m. Onofrio & Gerarda Pezzuto 10:30 a.m. Joseph & Albina Squeri 12:00 p.m. Spanish: George Catania, Edmundo Palma, Aracely Franco, Maria Cerezo 1:30 p.m. Emily Ost Lower Church: 9:00 a.m. Italian: Guido & Onofrio Troisi MEMORIALS THE BREAD & WINE are donated this week in thanksgiving for favors received, requested by Mario I. Chaparro B. SANCTUARY LAMP #1 is donated this week in loving memory of Marion Martin, requested by the Crum Family. SANCTUARY LAMP #2 is donated this week for the health and needs of Nicholas Micallef, requested by Mary Ann Pace. Please pray for all the faithful departed, especially Iolanda Sirtori Fr. Moises Mel Campo, Jr. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them. PLEASE KEEP THEM IN YOUR PRAYERS FRIDAY - March 2 7:00 a.m. Laurence, Margaret & Patrick Cassidy 9:00 a.m. The Calderon-Herrera Family 12:00 p.m. Martha P. & William M. McDougall SATURDAY - March 3 7:00 a.m. The Purgatorial Society 9:00 a.m. Gino LoFrano 5:00 p.m. Joseph, Paula & Anna Bessina Carmelo & Rita Mallia Thank you to all our Parishioners for this past weekend s collection: Collection: $6, Attendance: 1,067 people Per Capita: $6.11

Body and Blood of Thy Son Jesus Christ down upon the altar, and to absolve the sins of men in Thine own holy Name.

5 IN MEMORIAM Fr. Moises Mel Campo, Jr. O God, Thou didst raise Thy servant Moises to the sacred priesthood of Jesus Christ, according to the Order of Melchisedech, giving him the sublime power to offer the Eternal Sacrifice, to bring the Body and Blood of Thy Son Jesus Christ down upon the altar, and to absolve the sins of men in Thine own holy Name. We beseech Thee to reward his faithfulness and to forget his faults, admitting him speedily into Thy holy presence, there to enjoy forever the recompense of his labors. This we ask through Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord. Amen. DAY OF GIVING BACK TO OUR PARISH Dear Fellow Parishioners, I would like to take this opportunity to thank, on behalf of the Parish, the following young people who sacrificed their President s Day holiday to give back to the Parish by helping us clean and organize various areas in the Church, Rectory, and Convent, from 9 o clock in the morning until 5 o clock at night: Carlos Calderon Carmine Megaro Paula Cazarez Mary Mifsud Angelica Martinez Kenneth Rendon Beatriz Martinez Jonathan Sypeck Miguel Vivar They did an amazing service to our Parish, one that reminds me of the special commitment to charity during this Lenten season. May their service inspire more of us to commit our time and talents to supporting our amazing Parish. Thank you very much! Rev. Msgr. Fernando Ferrarese

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~ Astoria, New York 11105 The Fourth Sunday of Easter April 22 nd, 2018 The Feast of Saint Mark, Evangelist Wednesday, April 25 th, 2018 PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION